Displaced Persons (DP) Camp (post-1945)

Largest DP camp near the former Bergen Belsen concentration camp - camp divided into two sites, Site II Hohne, British occupation zone.

The DP camp was located in the French sector.

The DP camp was located in the US sector.

In the BADEHAUS of Waldram (formerly Föhrenwald), history can be experienced as if in fast motion: From 1940, the National Socialists built a model settlement for armaments workers in the Wolfratshaus forest. Towards the end of the war, the concentration camp death march passed by here. Then Föhrenwald became a camp for Jewish displaced persons who had survived the Holocaust. From 1956 on, mostly Catholic displaced persons with many children were settled and the place was renamed Waldram. Traces of this unique migration history can still be found here today.

The DP camp in Bad Salzschlirf was opened in the summer of 1946 and was run by Hersch Finkelstein, Kotok Salomon, Schulim Schapiro as well as Samuel Metzger.

The numbers of residents they developed as follows:

938 July 1946
845 November 1946
804 February 1947
862 June 1947
723 September 1947
745 January 1948
643 May 1948
601 October 1948
328 March 1949